Early 90s on a 286 or 386 (I forget) PC I built with a 24k internal modem. If someone called it kicked you off. Ended up getting two phone lines installed to be able to stay on the internet and phone at same time. Slow doesn't begin to describe it. Not even comparable to today"s standards.

Mid-20s in early '90s in grad school at Pitt: Dells and Gateways, I think, with Netscape Navigator (not sure). (My Smith Corona paper-writing days ended with WordPerfect and MacWrite II 4-5 years earlier.)

In the middle of winter, the horses and sleighs couldn't get through the snow, so I walked 5 miles in my stocking feet to get to the computer lab (and I liked it!).

It was at high school, so 1995/6 or something like that. Back then we only got computer lessons in the first 2 years of high school but then they didn't have proper computers at my school (no hard-disk, those big floppy floppydisks, etc..). So we had this project week at my school and we had to do something for the school newspaper and were allowed to get some information from the net. Naturally in less than 15 minutes people were browsing sites I'm not allowed to link tohere (you know, alien autopsies, dead Tupac photos etc... )

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i cant remember the first internet time. It was at least third grade which would have been 97ish? I used to go online and print out information about the titanic. myself and a friend were going to write a book about the titanic.

I also remember getting up earlier than my parents to look at pron. then getting caught and saying my friend made me do it. lol

My first real internet experience was with AOL in the mid 90's...I remember looking up sports stuff, finding it fascinating that all of this historical info (that is, standings from the past years) had already been compiled when I had been doing it using encyclopedias already...

I had so many of those free AOL minutes CDs it was ridiculous...towards the end of AOL's dominance, I used them as targets to practice shooting hockey pucks in my backyard...

My family quickly jumped to cable internet - I think we were the second people in my county to get it, they had to run new wires on the poles just to get to us... /csb

viva la ben wrote:In the early days of the internet windows 3.1 had no tcp/ip built in and you needed something called Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet.

I had a macintosh and ran a hacker utility called Butt Trumpet that would crash any windows 3.1 pc if I knew the ip address. Good times.

/csb

sub7 was awesome for this kind of stuff, and also flipping the person's monitor screen, printing from their printer, and ejecting their cd tray with a pop up that said "here is your free cup holder" type stuff.